Teen Challenge Chicago
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Teen Challenge International is a long-term residential recovery program built on Biblical principles. Chicago Teen Challenge is a full 13 month faith based residential program. The ministry that has become Teen Challenge was founded in 1958 by David Wilkerson, an Assemblies of God pastor who left a rural Pennsylvania church to work on the street among teenage gang members and socially marginalized people in New York City and who, perhaps, is best known for later authoring The Cross and the Switchblade and founding Times Square Church. Teen Challenge started its first residential program in December 1960, in a house of Brooklyn.In 1973, 15 years after the ministry began, Teen Challenge established a national headquarters.In 1995, Global Teen Challenge was founded to assist the growing number of Teen Challenges starting up outside the US, but struggling to acquire the necessary resources and training.In 2017, the organization officially changed its name to Adult & Teen Challenge, to eliminate confusion in regard to the fact that the organization not only works with teenagers but also works with adults in its addiction treatment centers.
